Young Marriage

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry. — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.” — read the full passage →

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — read the full passage →

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son.

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, — read the full passage →

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. — read the full passage →

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’ — read the full passage →

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — read the full passage →

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?